George Matthew Adams Quotes

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Improvement begins with I.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.